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OPINION

Needs to be a different way

Ventura County Star
Published 1:12 p.m. PT July 8, 2018

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Saturday's Families Belong Together rally in Oxnard was among hundreds across the U.S. protesting the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy that separated children from their parents.(Photo: JUAN CARLO/THE STAR)Buy Photo

There have been recent reports about immigrant families and how these children are being put in detention without their parents. These children are being put in these situations because of President Donald Trump and him signing an executive order halting them and their families.

A recent report posted on the VC Star website states: “Recent developments in national immigration policies have touched a nerve among immigrant families living in Ventura County, fueling already heightened fears about deportation and family separation.”

This here shows that there needs to be some sort of movement or fight back for these families who are trying to live their lives and work hard for what they deserve. Just in the Ventura County alone there is a vastly large amount of immigrant families who have these thoughts and fear having to be in this situation. When these children are forced to be without their parents and be separated because of these laws it affects them mental and emotionally.

These children are being punished by not being able to attend classes and living in fear of what will happen to their parents while they are stuck in detention. There needs to be a different way of approaching these types of situations and being a bit more focused on the children and the way they are detained. These children will start to fill like prisoners stuck in a situation that they didn’t have control over. They need to be given different options as to how they are going to be living.

Many of these families here in the Ventura County alone are suffering from this because they are being separated. These families don’t deserve to be treated this way especially their children who didn’t have a choice in any of it.

Angela Quezada

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